My research is unified by a sustained theoretical interest in the changing relationship between the public and the private within the public sphere. I examine how shifting boundaries between these domains reshape processes of social stratification, institutional differentiation, and the various levels of collective organization.

In contemporary Hungary, religious organizations have an increasingly prominent role in public services, particularly in the fields of education, social welfare, and healthcare. This institutional transformation not only redefines the position of churches within society but also affects internal organizational dynamics and the relationship between religious institutions and their adherents. My research explores how both lay believers and religious professionals interpret these changes and how they conceptualize their roles, responsibilities within Hungarian society.

Christianity can be interpreted with a complex and internally differentiated framework. I investigate whether, and under what conditions, its cultural, moral, and faith-based dimensions can be analytically separated. Building on this distinction, I analyze how references to Christianity may function as mechanisms of political and institutional legitimation, particularly within contemporary fields of power.

Within the framework of the Lendület Project MIXED, my research examines the role of civil and religious organizations in the preservation, construction, and redefinition of minority identities in ethnically and nationally mixed families. I investigate how these organizations function as mediating structures that shape identity formation, intergenerational transmission, and boundary-making processes.